Range



w. NOBLE Oct. 11, 1932.

RANGE 1929 2 Sheets$heet 1 Filed May 15 INVENTOR Patented Oct. 11,1932

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE WARREN NOBLE, OF DETROIT, MICHIGAN, ASSIGNOR T ELECTROMASTER, ING, OF

' DETROIT, MICHIGAN, A CORPORATION OF MICHIGAN RANGE Application filed May l5, 1929. Serial No. 363,352.

This invention relates to cooking ranges, more particularly of the electric type, and has for its general object to provide a range comprising a plurality of units which may be readily and easily assembled or disassembled without necessarily calling for special tools or expert knowledge.

Another object of the invention is to provide a stand or base including a back plate from which the cooking table and oven are forwardly supported, preferably without further support, so that the range will be of a simple and compact nature and allow sufficient room beneath the oven and cooking 15, table for storage purposes or for the addition of other units, such, for example, as a plate warming oven.

A further and important object is to provide such a range wherein the oven and cooking table are readily reversible as to position on their support with a minimum change of parts of the range to permit the assembling of, for instance, a range having the oven to the right or to the left of the cooking table, whereby both manufacturing and warehouse advantages are obtained as a result of the possibility of assembling the range from stock units in different combinations to suit the different requirements.

The invention further contemplates the spacing of the cooking units from each other or from the supporting structure, or from each other and from the supporting structure, to minimize corners or junctions between the parts which might form unsanitary and unsightly lodgment for dirt, and also to minimize the transmission of heat from unit to unit or from unit to supporting structure, at the same time simplifying assembly and fitting together of the range as a whole due to the elimination of a number of requirements for more or lcss precise alignment or closely meeting surfaces which would otherwise be necessitated. This spacing fear ture further reflects itself in enabling any parts of the range to be produced by mechanical operations and with desirable features of design, such as rounded outlines and corners promoting simplified sheet metal construction.

Still further the said invention, due to the forward suspension of the units from a back structure, lends itself to dispensation of legs entirely when so desired, as the back plate may be directly supported from or built in as a part of the wall of a building.

It is further proposed as an object of the invention to provide a form of hollow back plate within which the rear wiring of the range may be distributed to the units and accessories of the range and in which the said wiring is protected by the depth of the back plate against contact within the wall before which the range may be positioned.

Still further objects or advantages subsidiary or incidental to the aforesaid objects, or resulting from the construction or operation of the invention as it may be carried into effect, will become apparent as the said invention is hereinafter further disclosed.

In carrying the said invention into effect, I may adopt the novel construction and arrangements of parts hereinafter described by way of example, having reference to the accompanying drawings, wherein:

Figure 1 is an elevation of a range embodying features of the said invention;

Figure 2 is a side elevation of the same;

Figure 3 is a plan of the same;

Figure 4 is a detail elevation of the back plate in relative positions with the cooking table unit and the oven unit thereon being indicated in dotted lines;

Figure 5 is a detail elevation of the stand forming the main support of the back plate and the units of the range;

Figure 6 is a similar View to Figure 1 except that the relative positions of the cooking table unit and the oven unit on the back plate are reversed;

Figure 7 is a modified form of the device illustrating a range having two oven units and a cooking table unit; and

Figure 8 is a detail end view partly broken away of the cooking table unit.

Similar characters of reference indicate similar parts in the several figures of the drawings.

Referring first to Figures 1 to 6 and 8, a supporting structure is shown in the form of a stand having legs with forwardly projecting feet 2, the lower portions of the legs being spaced and braced by a horizontal member 8 suitably secured thereto, and the upper portion of the legs being also spaced and braced by cross members 4 and 5, such as illustrated more particularly in Figure 3. 6 is a back plate extending over the faces of the upper portions of the said legs and, when secured in position, still further serving to lend rigidity to the said supporting structure as well as forming a background for and assisting in the supporting of cooking units as will be explained.

This back plate 6 is provided with suitably arranged holes 7 and 8 through which bolts may be passed into such orifices 9 in the legs and cross members of the stand as they may be aligned therewith, and an excess number of such holes may be provided in the legs to admit of the said back plate being arranged at different predetermined heights on the said legs if and as may be required, as will be readily understood without calling for detailed explanation. The cross members 4 and 5 may be also secured to the legs by bolts passing through any of the orifices 9 of the said legs, so that these cross members may be also raised and lowered to agree with the adjustment of the back plate.

10 indicates an oven unit and 11 indicates in general a cooking table unit, the oven unithaving bolts 12 extending from the back thereof and the cooking table unit bolts 18 similarly extending rearwardly therefrom, the bolts 12 being adapted to extend through the orifices 8 of the back plate and the bolts 13 through the orifices 7 into and through holes 9 of the stand, whereby they may be secured by suitable nuts or in any other convenient manner. The said bolts are so formed or provided with spacing sleeves that they will not only secure the said units to the supporting structure, but will materially space them from the back plate as clearly indicated in Figures 2 and 3. This spacing although not essential is preferred for rca sons herebefore set forth.

It is also preferred that the oven unit and the cooking table unit be spaced one from the other and connected together as by a securing and spacing bolt 14 which serves to lock the units together in assembly and render the assembled structure more rigid as a whole.

A cooking table unit 11 is shown in Figure 8 as including an upper plate 11* and a lower distribution cabinet 11, said distribution cabinet being hung on its forward end from the said upper plate by means of rods 15 and the rear ends of the said members 11 and 11 are shown as being connected together by a spacer plate 16, although this may be dispensed with if so desired, as the connection of the said member to the supporting structure of the range effectively determines this spacing. However, the presence of the said spacer plate 16 in any case serves to rigidly connect the parts 11 and 11 together when they are not assembled in the range as a whole, so that a rigid structure is obtained for general handling and shipment prior to assembly of the range.

17 are braces connecting the forward end of the plate 11 with the rear end of the dis-' tribution cabinet 11 to obtain adequate support of the forward end of the said plate 11 as will be readily understood.

An examination of the Figure 4 having regard to the other figures of the drawings, will readily reveal that the only change required to place the oven unit and cooking table unit in a relatively left to right, or right to left, position in the range is in the relationship of the holes 7 and 8 in the back plate. It is further obvious that these holes could be duplicated so as to be symmetrical on both sides of the back plate so that even this change would not be necessary, but it is preferred, for the sake of eliminating exposed and unnecessary holes in the back plate, to arrange them especially for the required arrangement of cooking table unit and oven unit. It will be obvious that the cross members 4 and 5 may be detached from the legs and reversed as to their end to end positions to suit either arrangement of the units.

It will be also obvious that when an arrangement such as that shown in Figure 7 is required, a longer back plate 6 may be utilized with any suitable cross members increasing the spacing of the legs. This figure is thought to be fully self-explanatory so that further detailed explanation thereof is not entered to herein.

This invention may be developed Within the scope of the following claims Without dcparting from the essential features of the said invention, and it is so desired that the specification and drawings be read as being merely illustrative, and not in a limiting sense, except as necessitated by the prior art.

l/Vhat I claim is:

1. In a cooking range, a suporting structure including a base having posts rising upwardly therefrom and a back plate secured to said posts, and a cooking unit suspended forwardly from said supporting structure and so disposed with respect to said back plate that all space beneath said oven and above said base is free of braces, legs and other forward supports.

2. In a cooking range, a base having posts rising upwardly from the roar thereof, a back plate mounted on said posts, said posts and said back plate forming a supporting structure, and an oven suspended solely from and forwardly of said structure.

3. In a cooking range, a base, upright postsintegral with and at the rear of said base, a

back plate secured to said posts, a cooking unit suspended solely from said posts through said back plate whereby the space between said unit and said base is free from legs or other supporting means, and spacing means between said unit and said back plate for maintaining said unit in spaced relation with said back plate.

4. In a cooking range, a base, upright posts integral with and at the rear of said base, a back plate secured to said posts, an oven suspended solely from said post-s through said back plate whereby the space between said oven and said base is free from legs or other supporting means, and spacing means between said oven and said back plate for maintaining said oven in spaced relation with said back plate.

5. In a cooking range, a vertical back plate structure, a plurality of laterally spaced cooking units, means for mounting said units substantially on opposite sides of the center line of said structure, said units being interchangeable as to position on said structure with each other, and means connecting said spaced units together towards the front thereof.

6. In a cooking range, a vertical back plate structure, a pluralit of laterally spaced cooking units, means or mounting said units substantially on opposite sides of the center line of said structure, said units being interchangeable asto position on said structure with each other, means spacing said units forwardly from said structure, and means connecting said spaced units together towards the front thereof.

7. In a cooking range, a base having upright posts integral therewith, a back late secured to said posts, a cooking unit, olts for securing said unit to said back plate, at least one of said bolts extending through said back plate to said posts for securing said unit, said back plate and said posts in rigid engagement.

8. In a cooking range, a base having upright posts integral therewith, a back late secured to said osts, a cooking unit, olts for securing said unit to said back plate, at least one of said bolts extending through said back plate to said posts for securing said.

unit, said back plate and said posts in rigid engagement, and spacers carried by said bolts for maintainin said unit in spaced relation with said bac plate.

9. In an electric cookin range, an u right back plate, a cooking ta 1e, a distri ut1on cabinet therebeneath and spaced therefrom, means for-securing said cooking table and said distribution cabinet to said back plate, and a diagonal brace between the forward end of-said table and the rear end of said distribution cabinet for transmitting loading on said table in the direction of said back plate.

10. In an electric cooking range, an upright back plate, a cooking table, a distribution cabinet therebeneath and spaced therefrom, means for securing said cookin table and said distribution cabinet to sai back plate, and a diagonal brace between the forward end of said table and the rear end of said cabinet for transmitting loadin on said table in the direction of said back p ate, said diagonal brace being attached directly to said back plate by the means employed to secure said distribution cabinet thereto.

11. In an electric cooking range, an upright back plate, a cooldng table, distribution cabinet suspended from and beneath said cooking table in spaced relation thereto, means for securing the rear of said cookin table and said distribution cabinet to sai back plate, and means supporting the for- Ward end of said cooking table.

12. In an electric cooking ran e, an upright back plate, a cooking table, distribution cabinet suspended from and beneath said cooking table in spaced relation thereto, means for securing the rear of said cooking table and the said distribution cabinet to said back plate, and means supportin the forward end of said cooking table rom said back plate.

13. In an electric cooking range, an upright back plate, a cooking table, distribution cabinet suspended from and beneath said cooking table in spaced relation thereto, means for securing the rear of said cooking table and said distribution cabinet to said back plate, a cookin unit secured to said back plate and locate laterally of said cooking table, and means connecting the forward end of said cookin table to said unit.

14. In an electric coo 'ng range, an upri ht back plate, a cooking table, distribution ca inet suspended from and beneath said cooking table in spaced relation thereto, means for securing the rear of said cooking table and the said distribution cabinet to said back plate, a cookin unit secured to said back plate and locate laterally of said cooking table, means securing the forward part of said cooking table to said unit, and bracing means extending from the forward end of said cookin table to a point in said back plate materialIy below said cooking table.

15. In a cooking range, a vertical back plate structure, a plurality of laterally spaced cooking units, and means for mounting said units substantially on opposite sides of the center line of said structure, said units being interchangeable as to position on said structure with each other.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature.

WARREN NOBLE. 

